Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Internet cafe

Found an internet cafe less than a block away from my hotel. I am back online, did some research on the city I am in called Zhengzhou. It is the sprawling metropolis of Henan province, it has about 7 million people (Wuhan has about 9-10 mil and seems like a bigger city, that's why this motherfucker seems so crowded.) People that come here really seem to like it but for the most part I really haven't seen much reason to. It's small, underdeveloped, and the people seem really rude sometimes. They also have a really awfull accent, it's hard to understand any of their chinese. I also see huge numbers of kids not going to school here just messing around on the street all day, this may be the reason for the minimal amount of english spoken. People simply have no education. It is also the capital of the province. Henan province is the same size as hubei more or less and it's very near beingjing so overall there are more people than in Hubei (That's where WuHan is, 126,000,000 in henan compared to 60,000,000 in hubei). anyhow i need to think about getting to bed.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Jesus, you are in that shithole of a rat warren called Zhengzhou? Keep your hand on your wallet, son. Henan is both the poorest and most populous province in China. There are people in that city who would kill you for 50 USD because that is a month's salary for them. Better hope you don't end up drunk at some "sons of local politicians and their whores" nightclub and say the wrong thing to the wrong guy. They won't ever find your body. That happened to a Canadian guy back in summer 2002 when I lived in Wuhan. My advice is, move to Korea.

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